Steve Ansell
- Position: Artistic Director and Theatre Manager
- Areas of expertise: Theatre Directing Youth Theatre Sustainable Theatre Theatre Management and Programming Perforamance Analysis Digital Theatre
- Email: S.Ansell@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 8731
- Location: G16 stage@leeds
- Website: Good Earth Collective | Gi60 | LinkedIn | ORCID
Profile
Artistic Director, Theatre and Production Manager, stage@leeds and stage@leedsDigital
Founder of the stage@leedscompany and the stage@leedsYoungCompany
Artistic Director of ScreamingMediaProductions Founder of Gi60 The International One Minute Theatre Festival
Founder member of the Staging China Network.
I trained as an actor at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts before gaining a first class degree in popular music at Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds. I am an experienced and highly regarded theatre director. Prior to becoming artistic director at stage@leeds I was the associate director and director of education at Harrogate Theatre. I am the artistic director of Screaming Media Productions and the founder of Gi60 (the worlds only international one minute theatre festival, which takes places annually in the UK and US.) Also I am an associate artist at the Viaduct Theatre, Halifax. I have directed work in the UK and the US, including the premiere of Dennis Kelly's 'DNA' at the National Theatre in London. Recently I co-adapted and directed 'A dream under the southern bough' by Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu, also I have an interest in the concept and challenges of bilingual theatre. In addition to my theatrical work I am also an experienced musician and songwriter and currently perform with my own band 'The Good Earth Collective'.
Responsibilities
- Artistic Director stage@leeds Theatre
Qualifications
- BAhons 1st Class Popular Music Studies
Professional memberships
- British Actors Equity
Research groups and institutes
- Theatre at Leeds
- Stage at Leeds